Cerithideopsis
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| Cerithideopsis | |
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| Cerithideopsis costata shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | Cerithideopsis Thiele, 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Potamides iostomus L. Pfeiffer, 1839 | |
Cerithideopsis is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.[1]
This genus was previously considered a subspecies of Cerithidea Swainson, 1840
